00:00And you will have your own images and memories of that suffering.
00:05I've got three etched in my mind.
00:08The first is, in the early days when I went to Kyiv after the conflict broke out,
00:12I went to Butcher, which is just outside Kyiv, and saw for myself the roads and the ditches
00:19in which Ukrainian civilians were handcuffed with their hands behind their back, blindfolded,
00:26and shot in the head.
00:27This is not a remote conflict a long way away from the United Kingdom.
00:32It's about us in so many levels.
00:34It's about our values of freedom, democracy, and the right of a country to decide for itself
00:39what it does, which is democracy and sovereignty.
00:43It has already impacted us over and above the work we've done on capability, resource,
00:49sanctions, etc., because it has hit every family with the cost of living.
00:54Energy prices doubled at the beginning of this conflict.
00:56They're still 40% higher than they were before the conflict.
01:00And so every family is feeling this.
01:02And how and when this conflict ends is going to affect everybody in the United Kingdom
01:09for a very long time.
01:11Which is why it's so important that we make sure that it's a just and lasting peace.
01:14So obviously I gonna know the last thing I haven't ever seen in moments all this.
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